Working with:

Public bodies (e.g. Councils, Health Services, Police, Schools and Colleges, Multi-agency forums etc.)
Private sector (e.g. employers, legal services, business forums etc.)
Voluntary sector (e.g. Victim Support, CABx community organisations and charities etc.)

Organisations providing services in the community need to ensure that they are serving everyone well - to their own advantage and to the benefit of their users ,clients, patients and customers. It is in the organisations' own interests to work out how to use their resources productively to meet need. To do this requires that service providers understand the needs and circumstances of their target groups. Providers need information from the users themselves, from potential users and from people who have a specialist background in researching and promoting the interests of specific target groups. Providers also have duties and responsibilities under the law to make sure that their service does not subject users and potential users to unfair discrimination, whether intentionally or by default. Many service providers have told us that they need help in translating good intentions into meaningful policy and practice. They also need help in applying the specifics of race equality law to their general practice.

The Devon Racial Equality Council (Devon REC) gives service providers help in identifying how they must take account of their obligations and provides locally relevant advice on how to do this, based on its research and case-work experience. The Devon REC uses its specialist knowledge and its ability to understand the needs of both users and providers, to enable organisations to develop their own capacity to adapt to and adopt the principles of Race Equality.